Radoslav Nenadál (30 October 1929 – 17 July 2018) was a Czech writer and translator of English-language literature. He was born on 30 October 1929 in

Šumperk Šumperk (; ) is a town in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 25,000 inhabitants. It is an industrial town, but it also contains valuable historical and architectural monuments. The historic town centre is well preserved and i ...

, but in his childhood, he moved to

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with his family. He then studied English and Czech at the Philosophical Faculty of

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. After studying, he began to work as a college educator. He translated into Czech, for example, works by

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics ...

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and others. His translations include the novel Sophie's Choice by American prose writer

William Styron William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. Early life Styron was born in the Hilton Village historic district of Newport News, Virginia, the so ...

. In 1981, Nenadal won the Translation Section Award for the Philosopher and Oyster Book of

James Thurber James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his gag cartoon, cartoons and short stories, published mainly in ''The New Yorker'' an ...

, as well as the Odeon Prize for Work in American Literature. In 2017 he was brought to the Hall of Fame by the Municipality of Translators. He wrote several novels such as Rakvářova dcera a jiné prózy (1985), Přijď zpět (anebo radši ne), Dušinky (1989), Gaudeamus či My tě zazdíme, Aido, dále Škorpión, Zahrada či Sešitky chrámové pěvkyně. He died on 17 July 2018 at the age of 88.Zemřel Radoslav Nenadál. Do češtiny přeložil Sophiinu volbu i Hemingwaye

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1929 births 2018 deaths Czech translators Translators from English People from Šumperk Charles University alumni {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub